Mr. Parr - Cracked Up- Plate Tectonics Song lyrics

Compression, tension, shearing too
Are the ways that the plates will move
And you see it all over Earth now

Baby, when the plates will divide
Divergent, the ridge will spread wide
All along Mid-Atlantic Ridge now
(Iceland breaking apart too)

Make mountain rock or spread the seas
They split the rest
Along the transform boundaries
They never stop moving with ease
Take rock and break it changing
Earth from what we see, ha

The crust gets cracked up in the lithosphere
Tension, compression, and shearing now
An engine moves it in asthenosphere
Convection currents moving up and down

Convergent they come together
Subduction one plate goes under
We see fireworks where they touch now
(Volcanoes can come out soon)

The plates fit the line like a glove
Side to side they shear and they cut
‘Cause earthquakes along a transform now
(San Andreas is one too)

Make mountain rock or spread the seas
They split the rest
Along the transform boundaries
They never stop moving with ease
Take rock and break it changing
Earth from what we see, ha

The crust gets cracked up in the lithosphere
Tension, compression, and shearing now
An engine moves it in asthenosphere
Convection currents moving up and down

The crust gets so cracked up
Oh, the crust gets so, so smashed up
Oh, here’s just some ways the plates move
Cracked up
Oh, the crust gets so, so pulled up
Oh, here’s just some ways the plates move
Yeah, Wegener so intelligent
Make a theory-idea continents a puzzle fit
Not all the scientists thought he had reason
Mr hess and Wilson found the
Thing he was missing
Yeah, and here’s the special
Place where they met
Normal faults in world are spreading out
(spreading out)
Reverse are the kind pushing land closer to
And strike slip are sliding
On-cutting the ground
Most dangerous place in the world
Award along the plates
Compression pushing plates getting
Close to ‘em
Ha, side to side shearing troublesome
Tension, crust stretching thinner
Like bubblegum

Pushing, side to side, pull
Every way that they move
Here’s just some ways plates move
Here’s just some ways the plates move

Pushing, side to side, pull
Every way that they move
Here’s just some ways plates move
Here’s just some ways the plates move

The crust gets so cracked up
In the lithosphere
Tension, compression, and shearing now
An engine moves it in asthenosphere
Convection currents moving up and down

The crust gets so cracked up
Oh, the crust gets so, so smashed up
Oh, here’s just some ways the plates move
Cracked up
Oh, the crust gets so, so pulled up
Oh, here’s just some ways the plates move